Liz Montgomery in Porcupine Soup runs down all the school board hearings on budgets this week ahead of the May 16 voting. The Cairo-Durham Central School District holds its budget hearing at 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 4 in the high school distance learning classroom about a budget with a proposed 3.78 percent tax levy increase. Bernadette Gavin-Palmieri (incumbent), Aniston Keff, Stephen Brandow (incumbent), Claudia Zucker (incumbent), and Nicole Plank compete for three seats on the school board there. The Catskill Central School District has a budget hearing at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 3 in the high school library for a budget with a 2 percent tax levy increase. Henry Haye, Deborah Johnson (incumbent), Joseph Izzo, Ryan Osswald (incumbent), Lee Heim, and Allan Couser compete for three seats on the board, with a “meet the candidates” forum Monday, May 8 at 6 p.m. in the high school library. The Coxsackie-Athens Central School District holds two budget hearings on Tuesday, May 2, with one at 6 p.m. in the Edward J. Arthur Elementary School cafeteria and the other at 7 p.m. in the Coxsackie Elementary School cafeteria. The proposed budget there has a 2.93 percent tax levy increase. Tara Bachner (incumbent), Ina Griffin-Guilzon (incumbent), Jamie Dorr (incumbent), and Sam Anderson compete for three seats on the Coxsackie school board. The Greenville Central School District holds its budget hearing at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 2 in the middle school/high school auditorium about a proposed budget with a a 2.47 percent tax levy increase. Kelly Hubicki, Robert Pondiscio, and Eric Herbstritt (incumbent) vie for two seats on the board, with a “meet the candidates” forum immediately following the May 2 budget hearing. The Hunter-Tannersville Central School District has a budget hearing at 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 4 in the elementary school cafeteria for a budget with a tax levy increase of 2.31 percent. The Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School District holds its budget hearing at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 9 in the school library, but does not yet reveal what its proposed tax levy increase is, if any. Read more about this story in Porcupine Soup.